Saturday, 28 August 2010

Future Rock Band - another example of evolving Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality seems to be moving further and further away from symbols on bits of paper and webcams. Real life applications are making Augmented Reality more interesting, enabling every day items to have additional digital layers attached to them.

Here is a nice example, imagining how interactive music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero could look in the future - effectively digital guides overlaid onto real world instruments:

This execution is clearly based on gaming, but it's not much of a leap to imagine how this could apply in other areas too. AR gets more interesting by the day!